As an avid Throwing Muses fan, I used to be so much more on top of what Kristin Hersh was up to, but I seem to have fallen down on the job. I just stumbled upon the video for her newest solo single from the album Learn to Sing like a Star, and it’s good […]

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Now that Pretty Girls Make Graves has announced its final tour dates, ex-members have already formed new bands. Seattle’s The Cave Singers have only recorded a few demos, but that hasn’t stopped some preliminary talks with Matador. Ex-PGMG bassist Derek Fudesco is now finger picking a classical guitar on songs that inform a dark, dreary […]

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It’s true that the moment Blonde Redhead signed with the legendary 4AD records, the band’s sound changed significantly. Sure, it could be argued that its last record for Touch and Go, 2000’s Melody of Certain Damaged Lemons, hinted at the process with a notable reliance on keyboards, but once 2004’s Misery is a Butterfly was […]

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I wasn’t too hepped up on the idea of a Jesus & Mary Chain reunion because they’d kind of drifted into indifference on their last few records. But news of Scarlett Johansson singing with the Reid brothers would certainly make a reunion show a little more worthwhile. First, Johansson’s rumored to be recording an album […]

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Booji Boy (Mark Mothersbaugh’s on stage alter-ego, satirizing the infantile regression of Western culture, of course) sings “Red Eye Express” off Duty Now for the Future, much to the confusion and delight of an unsuspecting French audience. It’s undated, but from the stage set-up it looks to be about 1978. The video quality is lacking, […]

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Blur frontman Damon Albarn, the voice behind Gorillaz, has confirmed to BBC Radio 2 that the multi-media cartoon quartet won’t be recording any more albums: “There won’t be another pop record.” Instead, the final project for the pretend-band will be a film with Terry Gilliam rumored to direct, for which Gorillaz will write the score. […]

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Something about The Fratellis put me off the moment I heard them. The music is harmless enough, as they plunder everything that is trendy right now, but it just sounds too contrived in its happy-go-lucky garage-pop facade. The blatant Arctic Monkeys rip-off is just unsettling. I realize the Arctic Monkeys have sold a ridiculous amount […]

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